Can Muslims Watch Porn, Do Sex with
Toys & Do Masturbation?

We received the following email from a Muslim reader, who
has been mentally tormented over his dilemma about sex with toys and
watching pornography. His name has been initialized to maintain
privacy. I have expressed my view on the whole range of sexual
dilemma, including masturbation Muslim youths face.

MZ Khan wrote:

I am not married therefore Is viewing porn films allowed in
Islam & sex with toys allowed??

There is nothing in Islam that says that you cannot watch porn or
do sex with toys. In Islam, you cannot have sex with other Muslim
married women; for this, you should be stoned to death. If you have
sex with unmarried Muslim girl, you will be subjected to 80 lashes.
If you do get involved with another man in homosexual acts, you will
be forgiven, if you repent.

However, you can do sex with Kafir women any way you want. You
can attack the Kafirs, kill their men and then capture the women and
have sex with them. You can also kidnap them and keep them as slaves
as many as you want, who will do all the household work and also
provide sex to you. Allah has sent down a divine sanction to Muslims
for acquiring slave women for sex by waging wars against the
infidels and from spoils or booty obtained from it:

O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom
you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand
possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of
war.. [Q 33:50]

These being the injunctions of Islam, I do not see much reason
as to why you should be worried about watching porn or have sex with
toys. However, you should be able to watch porn without any
restriction. So is the case with sex with toys. Only thing you
should be worried while watching porn as to whether the woman
you are watching in the sex-act is a Muslim or not. This is because,
Islam Muslim men and women to lower their gaze when the come across
unrelated Muslims of opposite sex. I do not think there
are many Muslim women doing porn movies or anything like that. But I
also believe that if a Muslim woman becomes porn-star, she does not
remain Muslim any more. So, you should have nothing to worry about
watching porn. About sex-toys, there is absolutely nothing to worry.
Just fantasize it as a infidel woman, with whom you are allowed to
do sex any way you want.

As I myself have grown up a Muslim, another dilemma Muslim youths
face is about masturbation. There nothing specifically said about
masturbation in the Quran. However, there is one hadith in which the
prophet had prohibited some of his Sahabas from doing coitus
interruptus with the captured women while on a Jihad expedition.
Coitus interruptus means throwing the semen outside after sex
in order not to make the woman pregnant. The reason was that the semen should
not be wasted which could produce children. Production of Muslim
children was very critical to add the number to the small Muslim
community at that critical stage of Islam. However, in doing
masturbation there is not possibility of making anybody pregnant. Young men
keep loosing semen all the time through wet dreams. Muslim
population is too big and Muslims have been producing more kids than they
can handle.

So, I do not see any reason that you should not be able to do
masturbation. Furthermore, many moderate Muslims have been urging to
delete hadiths from Islam altogether. So, you should not be worried
about that dubious hadith on Coitus Interruptus. Using
condoms to limit pregnancy, which is the ideal example of Coitus
Interruptus, has become quite common in the Muslims world.

Some Muslim scholars, however, argued that masturbation is
prohibited in Islam on the basis of the following verse:

And those who guard their private parts from their wives and
those (slave-girls) which their right-hands own - so there is no
blame upon them. Then whoever seeks beyond that (which is lawful),
they are the transgressors.

This verse (no Quranic verse for that matter) obviously does not
address the issue of masturbation but that of legal female partners
in sexual relations.

But to my judgment, masturbation which is widespread among
Muslims and non-Muslims alike is a much lesser evil that Allah's
commands [Quran 33:50] of waging wars for capturing the infidel
women or kidnapping them for keeping them as sex-slaves and raping
them.

Last but not the least, Muslims are one of the peoples most
active in masturbation and watching porn in the world. Homosexual engagements
amongst them are also equally high.

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